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Re:Sweden's cashless society is no longer a utopia by cjhanks on Saturday November 10, 2018 @02:32PM (#18423041)
As long as you are fine with companies tracking every place you go (via GPS), everything you purchase, everything you view on line, and everybody you know. Then sure, the phone can replace cash.

Often I do not want any record that I have purchased something, I will stick with cash. Thanks.

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Re:Sweden's cashless society is no longer a utopia by Paperweight on Saturday November 10, 2018 @02:40PM (#18423079)
"I don't care about privacy because I have nothing to hide" = "I don't care about free speech because I have nothing to say"
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Re:Sweden's cashless society is no longer a utopia by zmk_ on Saturday November 10, 2018 @02:49PM (#18423125)
People in the Nordic countries have a different expectation of privacy. Just search for the plethora of papers in economics and finance that use "Swedish/Danish/Finnish data". While anonymized, you can get a look at spending and investment of the whole population. After you move to a new place, you get a personalized onslaught of mail welcoming you the neighbourhood. Everything you do is connected to the personnummer (social security number), including loyalty cards in shops.
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Re:Sweden's cashless society is no longer a utopia by djdjdndhx on Saturday November 10, 2018 @02:39PM (#18423071)
Specifically anything that anyone can or has at one point considered sinful, I would buy with cash:

- Alcohol - Cigarettes - Drugs - Condoms - Feminist literature - Anti-feminist literature - Ammunition - Guns - Bible - The Koran - Marx’s The Capital - Low cut dress

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